Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I am not aware of any request that has been refused. I would make the point that there are public sector agreements which determine the number of cases the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General can outsource for external audit.
There has often been a backlog even though it has improved significantly. There has been a regular question of why he does not outsource some of the auditing, because there are many auditors to outsource to. The public sector agreement specifies the percentage of business that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General can outsource. That in itself is a result of the public sector agreement.
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